I wonder if Bags just cranked out a bunch of these generic covers on weekends for awhile. “Draw a cool Spider-Man” is light work for him, at this point in his career….
Tag: Art Thibert
USM 047
Getting to these USM blocks is kinda like reading the 60s ASMs. It’s nice not to have to switch between titles and creative teams and decipher what goes where all the time…
USM 046
We’re back to the Ultimate Universe! For an issue that’s mostly an epilogue to our previous block, but which also directly sets up the first major story of this one, so I…
UXM 38 & 39
Wolverine is all face on this cover. This was one of Finch’s early weaknesses, he drew people’s heads too small, like there wasn’t enough room in their skull for a brain. I…
UXM 36 & 37
Look at those claws. Starting around the mid-90s, making Wolverine have claws so long that they couldn’t possibly retract back into his arm became fashionable, and it stayed that way. You know,…
UXM 35
As is often the case, we rejoin the story the moment the previous issue ended. Suddenly, the baddies’ van is violently flipped on its side. As they get themselves together, the lead…
UXM 34
In the very beginning, Bendis was supposed to write both Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men. That didn’t work out, and Mark Millar and Adam Kubert eventually got the gig. Millar had been…
USM 045
That’s one skinny ankle on that back foot! I wonder how boring Bags found these covers. I dunno, maybe it was a relief to just be able to crank out a random…
USM 044
I assume Spider-Man really falls to his death for a change in this issue. Let’s find out. It’s been a bit since I did that riff. It’s been a bit since Spider-Man…
USM 043
Help. Girl, help. Possibly the most generic cover of the generic cover era. This issue begins with a teacher very angry with Peter Parker for skipping his class. MJ makes up a…